 No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!  Notes Upon Some of the Obscure Passages in Shakespeare's Plays– With Remarks ... - 328 psl.autoriai: John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 375 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Harriett Hawkins - 2005 - 308 psl.
...radiance and plangency: And my poor fool [presumably Cordelia] is hanged: no, no, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thoul't come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you, undo this button. Thank you, sir.... | |
 | Colin Butler - 2005 - 217 psl.
...at exactly the right dramatic moment. Lear dies in helplessness and in hope, and both signify: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. Pray you undo this button. Thank you, sir.... | |
 | Maynard Mack - 2005 - 144 psl.
...final tragic fact into his human consciousness, where it never wants to stick : No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? Thou "It come no more, Never, never, never, never, never! He tries to hold this painful vision unflinchingly... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 psl.
...final scene with Lear's howls of agony and his realisation that Cordelia is dead: No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life And thou no breath at all ? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. (V.iii.3O5~8) Sidney's account of the Paphlagonian... | |
 | Rita Horváth - 2005 - 140 psl.
...his arms, Lear utters the word "never" five times. And my poor fool is hanged. No, no, no life? Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more. Never, never, never, never, never. (Shakespeare 5.3.942) 71 The dying away of... | |
 | Janette Dillon - 2006 - 39 psl.
...great decay' (V. 3 .2 7 1 ); for Lear, Cordelia's death makes no sense in the scheme of things ('Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, / And thou no breath at all' (V.3. 280-1)); Lear's own death as he struggles to revive her merely ratchets up the suffering for... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 psl.
...disintegration after it. His last speech still reflects the starkest question in human experience: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? (V. iii. 306-7) By the time Lear dies, he has stretched every moral fibre to the uttermost. His very... | |
 | Alma Bond - 2006 - 186 psl.
...understand choosing to sleep under the sod. As King Lear said to his dead daughter, I ask you, Kendall, "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, /And thou no breath at all 112 ?" Then Ed Griffin, an ex-priest and dear writer friend told me of someone who found an answer... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 psl.
...animal. Lear speaks the last words on this topic to the dead Cordelia, seconds before his own death: Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life And thou no breath at all? (5.3.305-6) This is not closure, not a clean exit, much less consolation. The seemingly random list... | |
 | Martin Lings - 2006 - 228 psl.
...267-68) But then he saw for certain, beyond any possible doubt, that she was dead: No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never. (V, 3, 306-9) Yet now, with his last breath,... | |
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